As a medical student at the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at the University at Buffalo, Brendan Fox often spends his evenings caring for vulnerable patients with Friends of Night People, a West side community hub, serving people experiencing homelessness and poverty.
In celebration of the values of humanism and compassion in medicine, Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences students, residents and faculty members were inducted into UB’s Richard Sarkin Medical Emeritus Faculty Chapter of the Gold Humanism Honor Society (GHHS) during an annual ceremony held Feb. 26.
The Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences hosted a moderated panel discussion Feb. 23 designed to foster thoughtful, solution-oriented dialogue around health inequities affecting communities in Western New York.
Perry M. Hogan, PhD, SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor and former chair of the Department of Physiology and Biophysics at the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, died Feb. 23 at age 83.
Eighty-five original research projects from aspiring physician-scientists were on display at the 2026 Medical Student Research Forum at the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.
UB pain researchers have co-authored an editorial about a recent meta-analytic study on how some patients with pain may benefit from exposure to nature.
Peter L. Elkin, MD, UB Distinguished Professor and chair of biomedical informatics at the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, has been recently named editor-in-chief of the IEEE Journal of Biomedical Health Informatics.
The Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences jumped four spots in the annual ranking of medical school research funding received from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), according to data compiled by the Blue Ridge Institute for Medical Research.
Clinical psychologist Lisa Ranzenhofer, PhD, discusses atypical anorexia nervosa, an eating disorder recently added to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual.
Carroll McWilliams (Mac) Harmon, MD, PhD, an internationally recognized leader in pediatric surgery, minimally invasive surgery (MIS), and the treatment of adolescent obesity, died Feb. 11 at the age of 68.
The Department of Family Medicine is developing a program that trains physicians to provide high-quality, compassionate care to individuals experiencing homelessness and housing instability.
In its sixth year, the annual Beyond the Knife endowed lecture hosted Andrea Hayes-Dixon, MD, a pioneer in cancer surgery and the first Black woman dean of Howard University's College of Medicine, to discuss health equity issues.
The University at Buffalo’s Philips MR7700 3 Tesla scanner continues to be a cornerstone of cutting-edge biomedical research and clinical innovation across the university and the greater Western New York community.
The bitter cold night couldn’t dampen the warmth, camaraderie, and good cheer shared at the second annual Community Table dinner held at the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences on Jan. 30.
Jacobs School course and program directors recently celebrated the implementation of the new Well Beyond curriculum's first phase while assessing strengths, challenges, and new opportunities in the 18 months since its launch.
